Andreas, My point is new line is a non printable character and if I do not remember all the stuff like echo does prints a new line character, I will be mislead. Anyway, it is an ideological discussion how to interpret it but I thank you and the GNU team for prompt response and being at top of the issues.
Syed -----Original Message----- From: Andreas Schwab [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 5:50 AM To: Hossain, Syed Cc: Bob Proulx; [email protected] Subject: Re: wc -m count is wrong "Hossain, Syed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can understand now why wc increasing it by one It does not do that. It just does not ignore any character. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
